Congratulations, @zdr! New spaceship speeds don't come along every day, or even every year -- and most new speeds need a big awkward construction, not a tiny new Life form that fits inside a 6x12 bounding box. I bet a glider synthesis for the new c/10 will come along pretty quick.

I wonder if there are any c/9 or c/8 ships with the same block movement mechanism at the back? Or c/11 and up, for that matter.

muzik wrote:

Kiran wrote:Wow, how did you find it? This is the second loafer!

Or blocker, because it involves a block instead of a loaf?

Sadly, blocker is a name for a well-known p8 oscillator -- no hope of reassigning it to this spaceship. And "block puller" also kind of means something else.

"Blockhauler" might work, or something more abstract that gives a hint that it's even slower than a loafer. Or... how about "decapod", or some other reference to the new c/10 speed?

... It might be a little premature to have "copperhead" on the wiki already, before hearing back from the discoverer. But it's easy enough to change it if necessary.

EDIT: @EricG, have a look at the weekender distaff for example -- codeholic found interactions that were "helpful" enough to build a high-period 2c/7 puffer or rake, even though the weekender's sparks are pretty weak. Nobody has done the same with c/7 yet, because loafers don't survive much of any interaction with anything -- you'd probably have to find a c/7 tagalong or some completely different ship that has usable sparks.

Sadly, blocker is a name for a well-known p8 oscillator -- no hope of reassigning it to this spaceship. And "block puller" also kind of means something else.

"Blockhauler" might work, or something more abstract that gives a hint that it's even slower than a loafer. Or... how about "decapod", or some other reference to the new c/10 speed?

... It might be a little premature to have "copperhead" on the wiki already, before hearing back from the discoverer. But it's easy enough to change it if necessary.

The ship kind of reminds me of a snail, but we also can't name it snail because it's also the name of a spaceship which also resembles a snail. However, snail moves at c/5, so maybe something involving words related to 2 and snail could make up the name?